I think MRG’s HAL was more than just the rectangular portion. It had displays, buttons and interaction. But yeah... it should still have been doable. View attachment 1341437
Looking closely, he just used a Moebius HAL9000, and Amazon tablet with video downloaded from youtube and some buttons. Add a sound card to store audio clips and you have yourself a HAL9000 control panel. I since just built one myself. It costs far, far, far less than $1k.
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